Dennis the Bridge Traditional Geocache
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The Dennis Bridge
The Dennis Bridge is a steel truss bridge which carries the Pacific Highway across the Hastings River near Port Macquarie, Australia.
It was opened in December 1961 as part of a project to replace the Blackmans Point ferry across the Hastings River and to bypass Port Macquarie. As well as the Dennis Bridge, this project included a 10 km deviation of the Pacific Highway and a 3 km connecting road from the old to the new highway route (Hastings River Drive).
The Dennis Bridge has a total length of 468 m, and consists of six 37 m truss spans and one 25.6 m truss span, as well as ten steel plate girder approach spans. The deck carries two lanes of traffic and a footway.
Three of the truss spans form a continuous truss, with the central of these three spans (of 25.6 m length) being designed for conversion to a lift span. However this has never occurred.
The bridge was named after Department of Main Roads engineer Spencer Dennis, and is one of a series of steel truss bridges of standardised design erected by the then-Department of Main Roads in the 1950s and 1960s, predominantly across the wide coastal rivers of New South Wales.
The Cache
The cache is in here somewhere
The cache is a magnetic silver nano-cache. You will need to bring your own pen or pencil to fill in the log.
You will have to walk some distance from where you might find a safe place to park. Be careful of the traffic as it get's pretty busy at times. You can use the pedestrian walkway once you are on the bridge.
This is NOT a kid friendly place Either appoach is next to a VERY busy highway.
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